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Biden’s condition shocks allies at G7 summit, with one saying it’s
‘worst he has ever been’: report
By Social Links forJosh Christenson

Published June 14, 2024
Updated June 14, 2024, 1:22 p.m. ET

President Biden has been “losing focus” during discussions at this
week’s G7 summit in Italy, with one diplomatic insider saying the commander-in-chief is “the worst he has ever been.”

Another attendee from a non-US delegation told the Sun Friday that the 81-year-old’s public missteps on the first day of the gathering were “embarrassing.”

Biden has joined the leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies — including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and British Prime
Minister Rishi Sunak — for the annual meeting to discuss their nations’ economic and security priorities.

Video appears to show President Joe Biden briefly wandering while
leaders watch a parachute drop at San Domenico Golf Club during day one
of the 50th G7 summit on June 13, 2024 in Fasano, Italy.
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President Biden was seen “losing focus” at a G7 summit in Italy,
according to a new report, with one diplomatic insider saying the commander-in-chief is “the worst he has ever been.”
Reuters
However, the president has stolen the spotlight with a series of bizarre actions, including giving Meloni an awkward salute upon greeting her
Thursday and wandering away from his fellow leaders during a skydiving demonstration, forcing the host prime minister to chaperone him back to
the group.

Biden apparently got off on the wrong foot with Meloni before the summit
even began Thursday morning, keeping the Italian prime minister waiting
20 minutes before arriving, according to public broadcaster RAI.

When the president did appear, Meloni reportedly chided him in an
apparent attempt at humor, telling Biden: “You shouldn’t leave a woman waiting like this.”

The Sun also reported that Biden had shown moments of clarity while
discussing urgent matters with the leaders of Canada, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, the UK and the European Union.

That is in line with The Post’s understanding from White House staffers
that Biden, who would be 86 years old if he completes a full second term
in January 2029, has at points lost his focus in private conversations.

White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates described the Sun
report as “lies” Friday and touted Biden’s “successful leadership overseas advancing our national security.”

Bates also insisted that The Post and other outlets had reported on a
distorted version of the video of Biden walking away from the skydiving demonstration, saying the president was giving “a thumbs up” and saying “congratulations” to another skydiver just out of the video’s frame.

However, Sunak told reporters Friday that the choreography of the
ceremony called for Biden to join his fellow leaders.

“He just went over to kind of talk to all of them individually and
Georgia [Meloni] was saying, ‘Don’t worry, they’re all coming to [us],'”
the British prime minister said.

U.S. President Joe Biden and France's President Emmanuel Macron look on
during a flag ceremony on the first day of the G7 summit, in Savelletri,
Italy, June 13, 2024.
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One attendee called the oldest-ever US president’s performance “embarrassing.”
REUTERS
European Council President Charles Michel, German Chancellor Olaf
Scholz, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President
Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, U.S. President
Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, British Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
attend a roundtable session entitled "Africa, climate change and
development" on day one of the 50th G7 summit at Borgo Egnazia on June
13, 2024 in Fasano, Italy.
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Italian PM Giorgi Meloni, President Biden, Japanese PM Kishida Fumio,
British PM Rishhi Sunak, European Commission President Ursula von der
Leyen, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and
French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit.

Getty Images
“We were meant to line up so they could come and then shake all our hands.”

Sunak also defended the American president, saying Biden was “all right” and was “being very polite” to the military members who took part in the demonstration.

Biden also skipped a dinner held for the G7 leaders at a luxury hotel in southern Italy later Thursday evening.

“There’s going to be a lot of meetings happening, a lot of sessions, as
you know,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Wednesday in excusing Biden’s absence. “And so, the President is
certainly going to be engaged for the — the two days — or two — two — two and a half days that he is in Italy at the G7. So, I wouldn’t read
too much into him not going to one dinner.”

The summit has been marked by the US signing a 10-year security
agreement with Ukraine and the alliance agreeing to lend another $50
billion to Kyiv in its war effort against Russia.

Biden salutes Georgia Meloni
Giorgia Meloni welcomes G7 leaders
BORGO EGNAZIA, SAVELLETRI, FASANO - Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia
Meloni, welcomes G7 leaders.
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Biden was caught on video raising his right hand in an awkward salute to
Meloni after greeting her on a stage in the Italian city of Fasano.
Reuters
US President Joe Biden looks on during a work session at the Borgo
Egnazia resort for the G7 Summit hosted by Italy in Apulia region, on
June 13, 2024 in Savelletri.
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The G7 group has signed onto a 10-year security agreement during the
summit to lend another $50 billion to Ukraine in its war effort against
Russia.
AFP via Getty Images
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had requested the assistance
while attending the summit, and later joined Biden for a press
conference to declare their joint opposition to Russian aggression.

Biden’s mental fitness is increasingly worrying to Democratic lawmakers
and aides, a bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal said last
week, with the president frequently caught reading off cheat sheets and
resting his eyes in meetings.

“You couldn’t be there and not feel uncomfortable,” one source who was
in discussions earlier this year over a $95 billion national security
package with military aid for Ukraine told the outlet.

A shocking 86% of voters — including 73% of Democrats — believe Biden is too old to finish a second term, an ABC News/Ipsos poll found in February.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister Rishi
Sunak, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, French
President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S
President Joe Biden attend a skydiving demonstration on the first day of
the G7 summit, in Savelletri, Italy, June 13, 2024.
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Biden’s mental fitness is increasingly worrying to Democratic lawmakers
and aides, a bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal said last week. REUTERS
First lady Jill Biden in March scoffed at the notion — floated by then-Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley — of politicians over
the age of 75 being forced to take mental competency tests, calling it “ridiculous.”

Biden will square off with former President Donald Trump in their first presidential debate of the cycle June 27 on CNN.

Half of US voters expect the incumbent to forget where he is at some
point during the verbal battle, and a third anticipate he will wander
away offstage, a JL Partners poll released Thursday shows.

“From Italy to the United Kingdom to New York, millions of people around
the world woke up to headlines about Crooked Joe Biden’s cognitive
decline on full display at the G7 Summit,” Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Friday. “Biden was seen staring off
into the distance and wandering around like a brain-dead zombie, and
even had to be ushered by Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

“Our adversaries like China, Russia, and Iran are no doubt watching
Biden’s obvious decline and plotting how they can continue to take
advantage of our weak and incompetent Commander-in-Chief,” Leavitt
added. “America cannot afford another four years with Crooked Joe at the helm. We need a tough leader with a bold vision to demand peace through strength, and that leader is President Donald J. Trump.”

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